Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Across the Pacific, the Russo-Japanese War exploded in 1904. T.R. later wrote an old friend that he had notified France and Germany "in the most polite and discreet fashion" not to combine against Japan, or the U.S. would "proceed to whatever length necessary." Later Japan began to thrash Russia. T.R., determined to balance the power of Japan, moved in secrecy and with great skill through intermediaries in Europe to signify a U.S. desire to mediate, and to douse the world powder keg altogether...
From their sirupy fiction to their slinky fashion ads, the weeklies are put together with but a single thought in mind: the care and catching of men. Thus, unlike such U.S. monthlies as Good Housekeeping and McCall's, most British women's magazines seldom brood over weighty social problems. Explains one of their top executives: "All other magazines turn people outward and away from themselves. Women's magazines deliberately invite the woman to think about herself...
Even the dealers who rent coronets and pseudoermine capes will benefit from an increased and more fashion-conscious clientele. The only potential danger involved is that the Queen someday might decide to pack the upper chamber with peeresses to swing votes vital to her sex. But this threat seems negligible, and the first action the sovereign might take is to appoint Princess Margaret Lady Chancellor...
...game began in a rough fashion as the referees handed out three penalties in the first six minutes of play. Cleary opened the scoring for the varsity when he took a pass from Guttu and scored on an open net. (Pitts was out of the cage, scurrying after a rebound.) Fischer made it 2-0 when he tipped in one of Owen's slap shots from the blue line at 15:30 of the opening period...
Married. Lyle (Skitch) Henderson, 40, goateed TV-radio bandleader (on the Steve Allen Show); and German-born Fashion Model Ruth Michaels, 28; both for the second time (his first: Faye Emerson); in Greenwich, Conn...